How to I open the DVD/CD drive? Stop app from starting at boot up?

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I want to download some material onto a DVD drive. Where do you open it at? How?

Also I have some useless apps that start at boot up hogging resources. How do I delete them from startup?

Thankls a lot!

Ron

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A couple of ways to open the DVD/CD drive.

1. My Computer > Devices and Drives
2. Right-click on the DVD/CD icon, and select Eject

There is usually a little eject button on the outside of the drive. Push on that and the drive will open.

For unwanted startup programs.

1. Right-click on the Task bar, and select Task Manager.
2. Click on the Startup tab.
3. Right-click on each program you don’t want to automatically start, and select Disable.

 

 

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What start up programs and what resources are they hogging? Full details please.

cheers, Paul

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The ones that do not show up in the startup delete box such as: Clipboard,
I do not have a startup tab in Task Manager.
Thanks

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Clipboard being? Is it the Office clipboard manager?

cheers, Paul

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audit21 wrote:

I do not have a startup tab in Task Manager.

Open a Command prompt and enter “msconfig” (no quotes).

Click on the Startup tab.

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There are also 3rd party tools that address unwanted startup programs…

Revo Uninstaller (free)

Autoruns (free)

The key to happiness is to use them carefully.

 

 

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